WinXP Install Problem?

[BobK]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to do a clean install of WinXP Pro on an older 1.1 gig machine,
512 mb ram, two hard drives, cdrom, floppy, and zip250.

Initially WinXP went through the setup process and rebooted itself when it
should have started to install. Several attempts, same result. I don't know
the BIOS real well but I have set all drives to Auto and the CDROM as the
first Boot device. I am not even sure what drives are primary and secondary
master and slave.

I initially had boot sector problem errors which I am trying to fix. After
tweaking a bit, I am getting different behavior.

The CDROM is detected for bootup. The screen goes gray and the cdrom and
computer lights act like things are running but the screen is gray.

Then after an hour or so I get a blue setup screen (Not the nice WinXP
screen) but one that says Setup in the upper left corner and a progress bar
at the bottom. It shows that setup is Loading Files such as: Kernel
Debugger.dll, Toshiba Floppy Driver, SCSI port driver, serial port
enumerator, etc. This ran overnight for about 10 hours!

Then it stops with Setup is Starting Windows in the progress bar but the
lights all go off indicating that it just stopped. When I reboot, it starts
the process over again.

Any idea of what I might try? Is it still a boot sector problem?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[Pen]

memory or disk problems. get memtest86 and run it;
http://www.memtest86.com/
if that is of, run fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record.
Then run scandisk to check the drive.

 

[Chris Spencer]

I havn't read the whole post yet but doesn't XP need atleast 1.5 gigs?

 

[Alex]

400MHz with 128 ram.